Description: An essential field guide companion covering species pairs or groups that are difficult to identify
Brief description: Keith Vinicombe is an ornithologist and bird identification expert. His first book was the Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification, which became the Helm Guide to Bird Identification in its second edition. Keith has served on both the British Birds Rarities Committee and the BOU Records Committee; he is identification consultant to Birdwatch magazine, and has written extensively on bird identification in Birdwatch and other journals, including Birding World and British Birds.
Review Quotes:
"For beginner and intermediate-level birders, there's plenty of information to soak up; plenty to learn about. And for those more seasoned among us, it'll act as an extremely useful identification reference on many of the more pressing quandaries relevant to British (and European) birders in contemporary times." --Birdwatch
"A godsend to anyone wanting to tell a bar-tailed from a black-tailed godwit, a firecrest from a goldcrest or a greenfinch from a siskin." --Daily Express "This major revision of a classic guide is a resounding success. Its greater dimensions, its greater number of species and its more in-depth treatments are ample testimony both to the advances of the last twenty-five years and to the knowledge and skill of its author and artist in condensing them so well." --Andy Stoddart, Rare Bird Alert "A helpful new book ... It is carefully detailed but it is also agreeably written." --The Times "This is a wonderful book for any birding enthusiast, and a very useful companion to a good standard field guide. If it's not already on your wildlife bookshelf, I heartily recommend adding it." --Ireland's Wildlife "A great source of reference to help us tackle those birds we all come across while birding or surveying that we struggle with." --BTO News "This is an indispensable addition to your library." --Scottish Birds